Cooper's Novels, Volym 10Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... never can hope to acquire . We hear a great deal of god - like minds , and of the far - reaching faculties we possess ; and it may all be worthy of our eulogiums , until we compare ourselves in these , as in other particulars , with Him ...
... never can hope to acquire . We hear a great deal of god - like minds , and of the far - reaching faculties we possess ; and it may all be worthy of our eulogiums , until we compare ourselves in these , as in other particulars , with Him ...
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... never cheating , in a direct sense , but seldom conceding a cent to generous impulses , or to the duties of kind . He was a widower , and childless , circumstances that rendered his love of gain still less pardonable ; for many a man ...
... never cheating , in a direct sense , but seldom conceding a cent to generous impulses , or to the duties of kind . He was a widower , and childless , circumstances that rendered his love of gain still less pardonable ; for many a man ...
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... , or covetousness , or some vague expectation that the girl might yet contract a marriage that would enable him to claim all his advances , had induced the deacon never to bestow a cent on her education , or dress , or 18 THE SEA LIONS .
... , or covetousness , or some vague expectation that the girl might yet contract a marriage that would enable him to claim all his advances , had induced the deacon never to bestow a cent on her education , or dress , or 18 THE SEA LIONS .
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... Never- theless , decency , to say nothing of the influence of what " folks would say , " the Archimedean lever of all society of puritanical origin , exhorted him to consent to his niece's proposal . " It is such a round - about road to ...
... Never- theless , decency , to say nothing of the influence of what " folks would say , " the Archimedean lever of all society of puritanical origin , exhorted him to consent to his niece's proposal . " It is such a round - about road to ...
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... never yet received his share of his father's pro- perty ; an account that was true enough , though the truth might have shown that the old man had left nothing worth dividing . He had been a common mariner , like the son , and had left ...
... never yet received his share of his father's pro- perty ; an account that was true enough , though the truth might have shown that the old man had left nothing worth dividing . He had been a common mariner , like the son , and had left ...
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Sida 105 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Sida 64 - em to be, now, almost as useful as almanacs. Read what it says about the seasons, child." " It says, sir, that the changes in the seasons are owing to ' the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Sida 120 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll [ Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Sida 102 - God's kind hand it flows To shade the couch where his children repose. Then kneel, while the watching stars are bright, And give your last thoughts to the Guardian of night.
Sida 146 - Let winter come ! let polar spirits sweep The darkening world, and tempest-troubled deep ! Though boundless snows the withered heath deform, And the dim' sun scarce wanders through the storm, Yet shall the smile of social love repay, With mental light, the melancholy day ! And, when its short and sullen noon is o'er, The...
Sida 198 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Sida 204 - Ye dart upon the deep, and straight is heard A wilder roar, and men grow pale, and pray ; "Ye fling its waters round you, as a bird Flings o'er his shivering plumes the fountain's spray. See ! to the breaking mast the sailor clings ; Ye scoop the ocean to its briny springs, And take the mountain billow on your wings, And pile the wreck of navies round the bay.
Sida 64 - 'arth's orbit has an inclination towards changes,' you say." "The changes in the seasons, sir, are owing to 'the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Sida 101 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.